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2018 Congressional/Senate Election Results Thread

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I don't have much hope of any change in the results even with these, but I read these posts as trying to provide a future reason to vote republican as a hedge against losing. Scott can't actually take any real action to stop this, but if he hems and haws and "do declares!" about this irregularity it will rally future support if he should lose for the GOP ticket as a whole and fits a narrative of lies that the democrats are thieves and whatever that they want to reinforce to keep their voter-base secure.

I don't have much hope of any change in the results even with these, but I read these posts as trying to provide a future reason to vote republican as a hedge against losing. Scott can't actually take any real action to stop this, but if he hems and haws and "do declares!" about this irregularity it will rally future support if he should lose for the GOP ticket as a whole and fits a narrative of lies that the democrats are thieves and whatever that they want to reinforce to keep their voter-base secure.

Its quite different from Georgia.

He's trying to have another Brooks Brothers riot. But on Twitter as well.

Recall that the original included one Brett Kavanaug and Roger Stone.

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EncA Fool with CompassionThe Land of Flowers (and Dragons)Registered Userregular

I don't have much hope of any change in the results even with these, but I read these posts as trying to provide a future reason to vote republican as a hedge against losing. Scott can't actually take any real action to stop this, but if he hems and haws and "do declares!" about this irregularity it will rally future support if he should lose for the GOP ticket as a whole and fits a narrative of lies that the democrats are thieves and whatever that they want to reinforce to keep their voter-base secure.

Its quite different from Georgia.

He's trying to have another Brooks Brothers riot. But on Twitter as well.

Ali Akbar (also known as Ali Alexander), a pro-Trump political activist funded by the Mercer family, said he would be recruiting homeless people and believers of the apocryphal “QAnon” conspiracy theory to build out his protests.

“I want 100 to 200 people at the Broward County election offices every day, 24/7 a day. I’m going to move the homeless people in all the adjacent counties, we’re going to get Republicans out there, we’re going to get Democrats who care about free elections, we’re going to get MAGA people, we will get [QAnon] people, we’re going to get everyone out there to make sure that these bureaucrats know that we are watching them,” Akbar said in a Periscope video.

He added, “Be ready. If you live anywhere within 2 to 3 hours of Broward County, be ready.”

Hundreds of paid GOP operatives descended upon South Florida to protest the state's recounts,[1] with at least half a dozen of the demonstrators at Miami-Dade paid by George W. Bush's recount committee.[2] Several of these protesters were identified as Republican staffers and a number later went on to jobs in the Bush administration.[3]

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The demonstration turned violent and according to The New York Times, "several people were trampled, punched or kicked when protesters tried to rush the doors outside the office of the Miami-Dade supervisor of elections. Sheriff's deputies restored order." DNC aide Luis Rosero was kicked and punched. Within two hours after the riot died down, the canvassing board unanimously voted to shut down the count, in part due to perceptions that the process wasn't open or fair, and in part because the court-mandated deadline was impossible to meet.

Hundreds of paid GOP operatives descended upon South Florida to protest the state's recounts,[1] with at least half a dozen of the demonstrators at Miami-Dade paid by George W. Bush's recount committee.[2] Several of these protesters were identified as Republican staffers and a number later went on to jobs in the Bush administration.[3]

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The demonstration turned violent and according to The New York Times, "several people were trampled, punched or kicked when protesters tried to rush the doors outside the office of the Miami-Dade supervisor of elections. Sheriff's deputies restored order." DNC aide Luis Rosero was kicked and punched. Within two hours after the riot died down, the canvassing board unanimously voted to shut down the count, in part due to perceptions that the process wasn't open or fair, and in part because the court-mandated deadline was impossible to meet.

Fun historical fact: Brett Kavanaugh was one of the original BB rioters.

Can someone explain what actually happened in Broward? Some voting station lost, and then found, a bunch of ballot papers? How, and how many?

All kinds of things are going on.

A ballot box was lost (or hidden) and then found later, whether or not those votes can be counted is unknown
Many voters seem to have not voted for a Senate candidate, this may be due to poor ballot design, or due to scantron issues
Many ballots were mail in or absentee ballots, or provisional ballots. As counting continues, more of those ballots are processed
Counting simply appears to be slow of the primary ballots

Can someone explain what actually happened in Broward? Some voting station lost, and then found, a bunch of ballot papers? How, and how many?

Broward supervisor of elections is consistently out of their depth. They are taking "too long" to count votes, and haven't (as of Wednesday, at least) been able to say how many (absentee?) ballots they have left to count.

The end.

Note:. Not too long in the statutory sense, they don't have to finish until either tonight or sometime tomorrow.

Nelson has allegedly filed a suit to request something about signature validation and request more time.

Nelson is asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida for an immediate injunction and to declare "that all voters who submit a (vote-by-mail) or provisional ballot, and whose ballots are subsequently determined to involve a signature mismatch, be counted as valid votes." He also requests Saturday's deadline to canvas ballots be extended until the legal matter is resolved.

I'm having flashbacks to Walkers recall results when Waukesha County randomly found ~25,000 misplaced votes, all in unsealed packages without documentation verifying their chain of possession, and turned the election toward Walker keeping his seat.

But also Rick Scott was apparently using the Emergency Broadcast System and breaking in on people watching TV to alert them to go to his Facebook page for the livestream of his little tantrum over the election.

So, you may remember that Rick Scott said he was ordering the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate Broward County's ballot counting.

FDLE has told him to sit down and shut up.

“FDLE is working with the Department of State and we will investigate any allegations of criminal activity or fraud,” FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger told TPM. “This morning we spoke with the Department of State and they indicated that at this time they had no allegations of fraud.”

“So we offered our assistance in the event that any criminal allegations are identified,” Plessinger added.

But also Rick Scott was apparently using the Emergency Broadcast System and breaking in on people watching TV to alert them to go to his Facebook page for the livestream of his little tantrum over the election.

The fuck, really?!

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But also Rick Scott was apparently using the Emergency Broadcast System and breaking in on people watching TV to alert them to go to his Facebook page for the livestream of his little tantrum over the election.

And this is not an abuse of power because ________

(The answer is republican)

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EncA Fool with CompassionThe Land of Flowers (and Dragons)Registered Userregular

But also Rick Scott was apparently using the Emergency Broadcast System and breaking in on people watching TV to alert them to go to his Facebook page for the livestream of his little tantrum over the election.

I can't help but notice that every State that is having these voting issues (the issues the President refers to as fraud) are governed by Republicans. GA, FL, AZ, TX.

If we can't call them outright perpetrators of coordinated fraud, we can at least accuse the Republican party of gross incompetence in failing to carry out a basic, fundamental function of our government.

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Don't assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding.

I can't help but notice that every State that is having these voting issues (the issues the President refers to as fraud) are governed by Republicans. GA, FL, AZ, TX.

If we can't call them outright perpetrators of coordinated fraud, we can at least accuse the Republican party of gross incompetence in failing to carry out a basic, fundamental function of our government.

But also Rick Scott was apparently using the Emergency Broadcast System and breaking in on people watching TV to alert them to go to his Facebook page for the livestream of his little tantrum over the election.

There was supposed to be a tweet and a video in that draft but just as well because since then there seems to be the conclusion that it was a local affiliate breaking into shows with a announcement banner scroll designed to look like an alert.

Also, whoever wins the Mississippi runoff in three weeks has to defend their seat.

Colorado is an obvious opportunity as that state has been trending Democratic. Maine loves its moderate Republicans, maybe the bloom is off that particular rose though finally. Then it depends on how things develop. Could get Iowa back with the right candidate (and continued tariffs) I think, North Carolina is doable, Georgia and Texas you need Abrams or Beto level candidates like say... Abrams and Beto, we could clone Jon Tester in Montana.

Also obviously anywhere weird you can recruit a great candidate and suddenly make things competitive. And there are some real assholes we'd love to take out on that list, like McConnell or Graham.

Winning the Senate seems doable, but it gets a hell of a lot easier if we get the Nelson win in particular. Especially since Espy would have to defend it again.

Another day, another chunk of California votes counted, more races looking better for Democrats. Several races that looked like R wins on Election night are now looking like D wins or coin flips. Reporters are starting to consider my district, CA-39, a likely Democratic win despite the Republican candidate currently holding a lead of about 3,000 votes.